An amateur film produced and directed by David Petrie and Doug Collender about the miniature gauge heritage Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway in Cumbria. The film follows the journey of one of their locomotives from Boot in the valley of Eskdale to Ravenglass on the Cumbrian Coast showing not only the passengers enjoying their trip but also those who work on the railway. Title: Movie Maker Ten Best Gold Star Award Credit: Group Three The film opens on the rural Eskdale valley in Cumbria and...

An amateur film produced and directed by David Petrie and Doug Collender about the miniature gauge heritage Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway in Cumbria. The film follows the journey of one of their locomotives from Boot in the valley of Eskdale to Ravenglass on the Cumbrian Coast showing not only the passengers enjoying their trip but also those who work on the railway. Title: Movie Maker Ten Best Gold Star Award Credit: Group Three The film opens on the rural Eskdale valley in Cumbria and a miniature gauge railway train passing though the landscape pulling carriages full of passengers. The train slows as a man passes a brown paper package to one of the two engineers. The parcel is held out revealing the title of the film. Title: Steam to Boot A map shows the route of the railway from the village of Boot west towards its final destination at Ravenglass on the Cumbrian coast. Near to the entrance of an old mine stands a number of abandoned iron ore wagons as well as as pieces of rusty old railway engine parts. The film changes to show the steam train coming out of a tunnel before pulling slowing into Dalegarth station where a crowd watches as the engine is de-coupled, turned on a turntable and re-attached to the carriages in readiness to depart again back along the track it has just come. The Fireman shovels coal into the firebox watched by a blonde boy standing on the platform. The driver releases the brake and train begin to pull out of the station, the guard standing at the rear of the train. The train passes over a bridge and travels through the countryside as passengers enjoy the surrounding scenery. A set of points are changed as the train passes under another bridge before travelling through a manmade cutting. At a shed in the railway yard three men work together to 0use rods to clean the inside of an engine, the task completed the locomotive is steamed slowly along the rail track. A hammer is used to break up lumps of coal which are then shovelled into the tender. A man holds a spout as water is poured into the boiler. The engineer walks the length of train checking it over and the film returns to the same man at the controls of the locomotive it continues along its route. The train pulls into Ravenglass station, the name plate along the engine reading ‘River Irt’, and the passengers disembark. On the track beside it another train and carriages. A montage follows showing the train once again being turned around on a turntable in readiness for the journey back to Boot and people buying their tickets from a ticket office. The nameplate on another engine reads ‘River Esk’ as the guard blows his whistle and the train once again pulls out of the stations pulling a number of passenger carriages. Near a crossing gate waddle three geese and the film ends with the train heading through the rural landscape. End credit: Acknowledgement and thanks to… The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway Co. Ltd and staff End credit: Produced and Photographed by David Petrie End credit: Directed and Edited by Doug Collender End credit: Group Three